Alcohol Ads During NCAA Games Will Remain On TV Telecasts
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Adams Says NCAA's
Alcohol Policy Is Sound |
NCAA officials "reaffirmed their position Thursday on allowing some alcohol advertising during college sports telecasts after the latest push to eliminate the practice," according to Mark Alesia of the INDIANAPOLIS STAR. The NCAA currently prohibits on-site alcohol advertising and sales at its championships, but it "does allow televised ads for beer and wine." Such ads are "limited to one minute per hour and two minutes overall." NCAA Exec Committee Chair and Univ. of Georgia President Michael Adams said, "We've taken, I think, about as conservative a view of (alcohol advertising) as any sports entity in the country. So we think with student-athletes involved, the current policy is a sound one" (INDIANAPOLIS STAR, 8/8).
FANTASY SPORTS: With CBSSports.com planning to launch a college football fantasy game that includes real player names and stats, NCAA President Myles Brand Thursday said that the NCAA "will have to change its amateurism rules prohibiting the use of individual players' names in online fantasy" games. Brand: "Is this the beginning of a firestorm? I don't think so, though we're monitoring it carefully" (INDIANAPOLIS STAR, 8/8). Brand: "Our bylaws lump together names, images and likenesses and the names are being used now, so we'll have to go back and look at this. We will need to go back and look at our options. We certainly are not giving up our model of amateurism" (AP, 8/7).
CASE CLOSED: A U.S. District Court in L.A. has approved a settlement between the NCAA and plaintiffs in a class action suit filed in February '06, led by former Stanford S Jason White. The suit alleged that restricting a scholarship to tuition, books, housing and meals was an unlawful restraint of trade. The court's approval allows schools and conferences to more freely distribute $218M in existing funds devoted to student-athlete benefits, as well as establishing a $10M Former Student-Athlete Fund (NCAA).
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